Minutes of BL Committee Meeting Wednesday 23rd January 2019 1. Present Richard Evans (RE), Anita Laird (AL), David Rawle (DR), Dick Whitworth (DW), Jeff Powell-Davies (JP- D), Christine Goulding (CG), Stella Lewsley (SL), Karen Parker (KP), Dan Parker (DP), Christine Kiddier (CK), Keith Tonkin (KT) & Carol Edwards (CE) 2. Apologies Jane Yates, Paul Williams 3. Minutes of the previous meeting, on 19th November All agreed. Noted that Raymond Wren will not be spending any more time looking for the missing pin punches but DW will make final enquiries. 4. Matters arising not covered elsewhere Nil 5. Treasurer’s report DW confirmed that he had recently received a payment of £2610.97 as BL’s payment due for the 2018 Lakes 5 Day event. The club is to be charged £400 for the portaloo that went missing from the Swindale event last year. The recent Hackthorpe Level D event made a £200 surplus. It was agreed that BL Juniors would be subsidised with a free place in the forthcoming Compass Sport Qualifier. Adult helpers to use the BL discount code if they wish to run. 6. NWOA Executive Committee minutes RE gave a brief report. The NWOA are to consider Roger Jackson’s proposals to restructure the NWOA. RE will reinforce BL’s view on the proposals at the next NWOA meeting in March. 1 7. Feedback from a) Coombs Wood, 8th December – Very good event. High competitor numbers again and consideration should be made to provide Level D event organisers with assistance. Agreed that it was the organiser’s responsibility to ask for assistance. Question raised about BL following WCOC’s sign-on arrangements. Consideration of handing out maps at sign-on. ACTION – RE to draft out a new Level D event process. b) Christmas Social, 14th December – Great event. Thanks to Raymond & Jenny Wren for organising. c) Binsey, 29th December – Great event. £500+ raised for charity. d) Hackthorpe New Wood, 12th January – Event went well. Great planning. Lots of runners. Shortage of maps. Agreement to print more maps in future. e) Report on accessibility of Priest’s Mill/Gowbarrow – DR has drawn a blank trying to contact Raymond Solomon, the owner of Priest’s Crag. Email failed, ex-directory on phone and no response to two letters. Nothing to report at present. 8. Updates not covered elsewhere a) BS7 stakes and stations – Arrived and all good. Can we get a bag for them? Aguila – Staveley. b) Border Liners 50th anniversary year – One of Karen Blackburn’s future newsletters will include an invitation to join a small sub-committee to prepare for next year’s 50th anniversary celebrations. c) Club roles: Fixtures Secretary – Consideration was given to dividing the existing Fixtures Secretary role in light of Anita Laird’s decision to stand down at the next AGM. Proposal that the role should be split into ‘Fixtures Secretary’ (making up a list of future fixtures) and ‘Access Secretary’ (making arrangements for access to land). Anita Laird offered to act as new ‘Fixtures Secretary’ for 2020 but no firm agreement was reached on the role of ‘Access Secretary.’ Club roles: Junior Rep – Discussion about the Junior Rep role. Could the Junior rep prepare club statistics or compile a junior league? ACTION - Jane Yates to have a word with Ruben Razzetti to see what he would like to do. d) Club website: layout/content/ which policies to include – A sub group to be established to consider this. Members: Anita Evans, KT, JP-D & DR 2 e) Additional item discussed about the general increase in restrictions to land access such as Ground nesting bird restrictions. Need to be considered in future event planning. 9. Club Development a) Training nights – A good night’s training took place at Lowry Hill in January. Thanks to Angela Whitworth. b) Club representative events in 2019 – JK Relays. British Champs at Bradford University. Scottish Champs at Drumlanrigg. c) Coaching – CK gave details of the coaching event at Talkin Tarn on Saturday 2nd February. This is aimed at adult beginners and juniors. There was a discussion about a further possible training weekend later in the year for club members. d) Application for development funds from NWOA Lakes 5 Days surplus – It was agreed that an application should be made to the fund to provide the club with a Junior/School set of equipment from Sport Ident to include dibbers, control boxes, mini printer etc. Cost approx. £2K but JP-D will provide a price. To note that the application must be submitted by 31/3/19 10. Mapping DP has now got all the club maps and is geo-referencing them. DW is looking into resurrecting an old area at Byreburn, Canonbie and DP and hopefully Paul Williams will help with mapping etc. Alan Hartley is making an O Map of Shap School using Open O Map. Discussion about possible future mapping projects. 11. Fixtures Organiser still required for September Level C event at Askham Fell. 12. Update from Team Captain Summary provided by KT detailed in item 9 b) 3 12. AOB CG raised a query about North East clubs taking part in the Compass Sport event. This was discussed and resolved and CG will take it forward. 13. Date of next meeting Wednesday 20th March 2019. Meeting concluded approx. 9pm 4 Minutes of BL Committee Meeting Wednesday 20th March 2019 7pm at …… 1. Present Richard Evans (RE), Anita Laird (AL), David Rawle (DR), Dick Whitworth (DW), Jeff Powell-Davies (JP-D), Stella Lewsley (SL), Karen Parker (KP), Dan Parker (DP), Christine Kiddier (CK), Keith Tonkin (KT) 2. Apologies Jane Yates, Paul Williams, Christine Goulding, Carol Edwards. 3. Minutes of the previous meeting, on 23rd January 2019. All agreed and accepted. 4. Matters arising not covered elsewhere Fixtures Secretary (access role): Discussion around volunteers taking on land access liaison arrangements for particular areas. It was suggested that areas might be grouped together and then volunteers sought to take on the role. 5. Treasurer’s report DW gave a brief report which included a summary of the recently acquired new printer (cost approx. £500+vat) and a financial summary of the recent Bampton Common event which looks like it will provide a net surplus in the region of £1,000. 6. NWOA Executive Committee minutes RE attended a meeting on 9th March for which there are no minutes yet available. RE confirmed that it appears Roger Jackson’s proposals for restructuring NWOA events will be rejected, although some clubs need to confirm this formally. However, it was agreed that an effort will be made to increase promotion of the Gallopen series with a view to attracting competitors from further afield There was a discussion at the meeting about insurance and a general aim to encourage newcomers to join an orienteering club/British Orienteering. 5 7. Feedback from a) Gelt Woods – This was a very good event. b) Training Night at Chances Park – A great training evening using controls. c) Compass Sport Qualifier – This was another very good event, which ran very well. Committee members gave a special thanks to Christine Goulding who had done the bulk of the organisation. d) Club Night, Knees – A very informative night at Low Hesket Village Hall. Thanks to Stella for organising this. 8. Updates not covered elsewhere a) Bag for BS7 stakes – Decided to leave the idea of a purpose made bag for the present time. b) Border Liners 50th anniversary year – A small working group has been established consisting of Stella Lewsley, Keith Tonkin, Christine Goulding and Angela Whitworth. A suggestion of a club dinner in a nice village hall on a Friday or Saturday evening was made and agreed by the Committee members present. 9. Club Development a) Training nights – As mentioned above. Further training nights to follow. b) Coaching day and NWJS weekend. These events have now passed. Christine Kiddier is planning further coaching on the day of the next Level D event. c) Application for development funds from NWOA Lakes 5 Days surplus – This application has now been submitted and we await the outcome. d) Junior rep – Neither Jane Yates nor Ruben Razzetti were at the meeting so this matter was left for the time being. e) Club website group report – The group has had one meeting where some small changes to the club website including streamlining of the fixtures page was made. An advert for potential new members to join BL/BO will be made more prominently on the website in future. 6 10. Mapping DP gave a brief technical summary about Georeferencing and the Open Orienteering website. DP confirmed he had rejuvenated the Permanent Course at Hackthorpe, which had fallen into disrepair. It is now in good order. The following future projects were discussed: Hallin Fell extension – DP & KP are working on this. Lowther Castle/Park mapping – DP & KP will look into approaching Lowther Estate. Blaze Fell – It was agreed to leave this area for the time being as the quarry workings are recently closed and potentially unstable. Watchtree – Phil Nichols is looking into the map of this area (which currently is not a proper ‘O’ map). Byreburn – DW and Paul Williams have done some further work on this map. At best, the revised area will be sufficient for a Level D event. 11. Fixtures All events for 2019 now have event officials in place. There was some discussion about the club’s larger events for 2020 and it was agreed that there would be no Level B event and 3 Level C events. These could all form part of the Cumbria Galoppen League. The proposal was: Penrith Beacon – Potentially 8/3/20 Knipe Scar – Potentially 17/5/20 Angle Tarn – Potentially September or October 2020.